Shopping online could not be less safe. Google Hack inurl:"/admin/configuration. php?" Mystore This hack works in MSN Live Search and Yahoo as well. Tooling around Google this morning with some of the older hacks to see if anything has been fixed in a while, the very old osCommerce Google hack still works, and works far too well with 3500 returns in Google. There are some interesting returns in the Google database that should cause people to stop for a moment, then dive to their osCommerce store to change things. admin/configuration.php?gID=41&cID=359&osCAdminID=6c44e04b6eb4b admin/configuration.php?gID=1&cID=5&action=edit&osCAdminID=8dd9086662a7f71257358c64af71e57d. These two (and there are many more like them in Google) also show that the embedding of functions and ID codes in the URL were also picked up by Google. That means the link that google followed to get here has an embedded admin id code for seamless login (hence the root of the URL’s are not being mentioned here). Customers during the holiday season deserve to have companies pay close attention to their store security. Having 3500 exposed configuration pages (some with login’s and codes already enabled) is not a good thing for shoppers or the companies. When a simple Google hack can make or break the store security, it is time to start taking this a bit more seriously. Tags: Google hack, osCommerce, inurl:"/admin/configuration. php?" Mystore, holiday, shopping, insecurity

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